Synthetic Biology: A Very Short Introduction (Record no. 296921)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780198803492
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 660.6 DAV-S
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Personal name Jamie A. Davies
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Title Synthetic Biology: A Very Short Introduction
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2018
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xviii, 126 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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Formatted contents note Biology: from analysis to synthesis -- How synthetic biology is done -- Synthetic biology and the environment -- Synthetic biology and healthcare -- Synthetic biology for engineering -- Synthetic biology for basic research -- Creating life -- Cultural impact.
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Summary, etc. "Synthetic biology is one of the 21st century's fastest growing fields of research, as important for technology as for basic science. Building on traditional genetic engineering, which was restricted to changing one or two genes, synthetic biology uses multi-gene modules and pathways to make very significant changes to what cells can do. Synthetic biologists aim to have an impact in fields as diverse as drug manufacture, biofuel production, tackling pollution, and medical diagnostics. Further ahead, synthetic biology may even make possible the long-standing goal of creating new life from non-living starting materials. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise explanation of what synthetic biology is, and how it is beginning to affect many fields of technology. Jamie Davies also discusses the considerable controversies surrounding synthetic biology, from questions over the assumption that engineering concepts can be applied to living systems easily, to scepticism over the claims for commercial promise, fears that the dangers of engineering life are worse than its benefits, and concerns over whether humans should be designing living systems at all." -- Publisher description.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Synthetic Biology.
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 26/03/2019 2 660.6 DAV-S DCB3584 03/03/2021 14/10/2020 26/03/2019 Book